Selecting text doesn't work in most multi-column pdfs and good OCR cost money. And if the original source is lost and you want an exact copy in word, the OCR tools need to be really good at guessing whitespace-to-line ratio, because pdf is only an output format and not a processing format.

For most other converting needs, there's pandoc, imagemagick and ffmpeg.

Every time I try to convert a PDF to epub or something, or OCR one that doesn't actually have selectable text, it turns out shit. I assume the real reason people would want to get LLMs involved is that there is actually a lot of ambiguity in what a correct conversion would be, and there are a lot of PDFs out there.

Training the most insane AI model on classified federal documents.

Omg, sign me up! I'm gonna put that script in production for a server used by millions of customers around the world!

6. Boss thinks AI can code at senior developer level and fires you and the entire team

A world of difference

regularizing the OCR'd form into a json/html file might be a good application of an LLM though. Perhaps this is what they were asking about.

It's so easy! Watch:

{"contents": "<garbled .docx contents goes here>"}

That was my thought. Young kids fresh out of school are really easy to manipulate into delusions of grandeur, especially when said delusions are offered by the richest person in the world. He's gonna leave them out for the wolves.

You don't need a private nuclear plant to run it? Wow very efficient.

Learn more: openai.com/pandoc

They are public employees who are changing things at the core of our government. Why wouldn’t we know their names?

Government employees names aren’t secret (asides from a few exceptions) nor is their pay

Yeah, seems that’s the point. Old enough to competently perform what they’re told, but too young to realize the gravity of the situation and how wrong it is to partake in it.

We know that his dad is an engineering professor at university of Nebraska too. Really calls into question his credentials. I checked the other day and they had already removed his contact info from their website.

be sure to include the metadata too. lol